Drum Circularity
Foundationalism claims for its rhythm
a priori while lovers pulse their story.
Crucial the volleys of mensural
truth or encounter. So long of tooth,
considered dead shots, spare skin abettors—
method only means what head-to-heads
define as a stand up or supine
war. But metaphysics is a bore.
Head’s a resonator but “I think” a lead
motion. Leading doers drum poison
baseballs up against such funeral squall.
Hand and heart form a reverberating band.
Agreement marching between a straight and bent
rebound sounds the depths. Fair weather kings crowned.
Stroke by stroke the lash and guillotine joke.
Tap tap tap the misplaced baseball bats.
Hand’s a first principal—a tool, a wand.
Works as a theory of knowing in which lurks
conflation of absolute and relation.
Been, is, and was as this erotic dream.
Scott Inniss is the author of Back Shelve (above/ground, 2024) and Mean Means (Model, 2024). He also runs the ad hoc poetry series Bring Your Own Reading in Vancouver.
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